Unofficially though, it seems anything goes. BirdLife Malta has received wounded birds belonging to a variety of species. "They will literally shoot anything that casts a shadow over Malta, they will blast it out of the sky," says Grahame Madge of the UK Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

The European Union is fighting the Maltese spring hunting season. Hopefully, the carnage should end soon. Meanwhile, remember that some of these little guys are flying north to breed. So it's likely that of flocks of quails and turtle doves you see flying in to European shores, some fell victim of avid hunters in Malta.

I am Maltese and want to dis-associate myself from the comments of may compatriot J. Inguanez. As you may gather from his rather simplistic line of reasoning, the hunting community in Malta are not the most eloquent or rational collection of individuals on our island. The majority of Maltese abhor the whole-sale slaughter of anything that flies over our islands. The fault lies sqaurely with our politiians who have made the cold calculation that the hunters represent a large enough minority group to sway the result of a general election. This applies to both the ruling Nationalist party (PN) and the opposition Labour Party (MLP). I encourgae all bloggers at this site to maintain the pressure to force Malta to rise above its status as a second world country. A status that is so cherished by the likes of Mr Inguanez.

I live in the south west of Ireland and we have a bizarre situation here where a few ignorant locals are bringing over groups of english, french and italian 'hunters' to shoot song-birds. They are given score cards to mark up their 'conquests' as bringing home a sparrow hit by a shotgun is fairly pointless. The law protects them as the hunting and fishing rights in this area at least have been held by a few anglo-irish families for many centuries.

two days ago a man was arrested with a freshly stuffed lesser spoted eagle,a week ago a kestrel was killed and two weeks before a falcon, visit maltse newspaper sites, illegal hunting is rampant in malta, and has been for ages, visit YOU TUBE (HUNTING MALTA)if you come to malta right now ask hunters to show you their TROPHY cabinet full of protected species

Hi im maltese but live in the uk, this year i was in malta for 6 weeks and in that time i seen more birds in malta than i have all my life, for the first time i seen ducks, swifts/or simaliar im not sure and albratross`s, i hope this will carry on and there numbers grow, i do not like hunting of anykind no matter what full stop. joe scicluna

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